Trailblazer is a sample web browser developed by University of Illinois MacWarriors Mac User Group. Using Safari to do all the page rendering, Trailblazer has a unique graphical interface for viewing browsing history. Its similiar to Expose in its simple design and use. Dear Apple: Pay these students a whole lot of money, and then throw this feature into Safari. (Thank you again, almighty Slashdot.)

So what happens when Microsoft publishes Word Documents on their publically-viewable web sites? Michal Zalewski comes along and reviews the change tracking information within those documents. Some of these are quite hilarious, as over-glowing praise and damning attacks are edited out. Michal says after a quick search, he found that over 5% of over 10,000 web-published .docs had deleted text within the tracking change information. Why didn't MS use their own tool to remove tracking information? (Thank you, almighty Slashdot, for the story.)

A new and hearty extension for our favorite browser, Mozilla Phoenix, er, Firebird, er, Firefox! This Firesomething extension allows you to change the product name in various parts of the browser. Random name generation is also an option. The Firefox naming changes have brought Mozilla some grief, but it doesn't matter. I'd rename Firefox "The best damn little browser in the world."

Nvu 0.2 Released! There's now support for templates and better CSS. If you're sick of Dreamweaver (and I am) you should give Nvu a spin. Download, and enjoy!

Now its official, Zed: Bring out the GiMP v2.0! Get your distros for Mac OS X, which includes a nice Gimp.app stand-alone app. You can get your Gimp on with Windows too. If you find the Gimp a bit complex, try out this Gimp Guide. IceBurrg should have posted about this, since he told me about it, but he is too busy for Interweb fun today.

According to this CNET News.com article, the Witty worm that has been giving BlackIce users problems was written and distributed just two days after the product's security flaw was made public.

Are you in the market for a media center PC but don't want to spend a bundle? Apex Digital may have a product just for you. They made a splash with a $40 DVD player, but I'm holding out for the $100 Media center PC!

Hideo Nakata to direct U.S. RING 2! could be huge, an exciting turn for a sequel.

Mozilla Backup 1.3a is out. Download and enjoy!

Mac OS X is the leading Unix desktop operating system of all time. Well, duh. Credit Newsforge for the link.

The Firefly movie has been given the green light! I just hope this movie launches Joss back in to a Firefly TV series.

This month's Mozilla Links Newsletter mentions possibly the best Mozilla Firefox extension aside form TBE. "Bookmarks Synchronizer is a Mozilla Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Setup is easy; just write in your FTP server address, username, password and a name for the XML file (by default called xbel.xml). To start, press Upload to create the file on the server and set if you want to automatically download the file on startup or upload it when you close your browser. Download and enjoy!

Here's a really bad idea. Take the MP3 standard that has been in place for years and ruin it by adding copy protection and version confusion. Will all MP3 players be able to handle this new format when it comes out? How will you know which MP3's are which? This sucks in more ways than I can count...